Improved bedstead-fastener



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'Leners Patent No. 99,030, aated'Jammy 1s, 1870.

IMPRO'VED BEDSTEAD-FASTIJNER.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and inaking 'part of the' same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY SWINEFORD, of Milinburg, inthe county of Union, and in the State of Permsylvania, have invented lcert-ain new and useful Improvements in Bedstead-I1`astenings; and vdo hereby declare that the following is a. full, elegir, and exact' description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification. The nature of I ny invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a bed-fastening, as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains, to make and use the same,

struction shown in fig. 2, andis cast in one piece with the plate B.

D represents the side rail ofthe bed, and is, at the end, provided with a deep recess, in which is placed, and suitably secured, a plate, E, provided with a T- shaped projection, G. v

This project-ion G iitswithin the grooved projection C, it being inserted from the top thereof, and pushed down to the lower end, the whole fastening being so constructed that the end of the rail D ivill come close up to the post A.

Having thus fully described my invention,

vhat I claim as new, 4and desire to secure by Let- 'lhe bedastening herein described, composed of the plate B, with grooved projection C, plate E, and T- shaped projection G, all substantially as herein shown and described. Y

In testimony that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand, this 8th day of December, 1869.

TIENRY SWINEFORD.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL HASERPLUGH, JAMES BAUM.. 

